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The Education Justice
author. Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Law Clerk for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, 2006-07. In June 2007—as my year with Justice O’Connor began drawing to a close—she stopped by my office for a friendly chat late one afternoon. Rather than p…
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Lessons from My Mentor, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
author. Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; Law Clerk for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, 2001-02. I thank my law clerks Rianna Hidalgo and Becca Hansen for their helpful edits to drafts of this tribute. I had the great fortune to clerk for Justice O…
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A Tribute to Justice Antonin Scalia
I was blessed to have had Antonin Scalia as a colleague and as a dear friend. I did not know Nino when I joined the Court in 1991, and we certainly made an unlikely pair: a northerner from a house of educators, and a southerner from a house of almost no formal education. “Friendship,” h…
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A Tribute to Justice Scalia
I am proud to name myself one of the seventeen Justices lucky enough to have served with Justice Scalia during his tenure with the Court. Much has been said these past few months about the mark he has left on our Court and on our country. Pages have been written of the contribution he made t…
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Scalia, J., Dissenting: A Fragment on Religion
[Author’s Note This unpublished opinion was supposedly found among the papers of the late Justice Antonin Scalia. I cannot say with authority that the supposition is true. Whatever its source, the opinion is plainly a draft. The argument contains certain doctrinal inconsistencies, and the …
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The Real Justice Scalia
Ronald Dworkin wrote in his final book, Justice for Hedgehogs: We value great art most fundamentally . . . because it embodies a performance, a rising to artistic challenge. We value human lives well lived not for the completed narrative, as if fiction would do as well, but because the…
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A Tribute to Justice Scalia
For those of us who had the privilege of knowing Nino, as we called him, what will come to mind first are his human qualities. He was a delightful friend and colleague. He had a big personality; I think he filled every room he entered. He was charming, engaging, voluble, learned, witty, …
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Remarks for Robert Burt
author. Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law, Yale Law School. The following remarks by Dean Post were delivered at Professor Burt’s funeral. The remaining Tributes are drawn from remarks delivered at a memorial service held at the Yale Law School on November 1…
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The Odd Couple
author. Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law, Yale University. In June 1988, Bo traveled to Santiago, Chile. The trip was sponsored by the Fulbright Commission and its stated purpose was to celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of the United States Constitution. Bo was acco…
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Bo Burt: In the Whirlwind of His Own Making
author. Director, Center for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania; Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. Bo Burt was multiple conversations in process, so daring in id…
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Connecting to What Matters: Remembering Bo Burt
author. Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. Bo Burt was gentle and passionate; supportive and forceful; larger than life and committed to improving death and dying. I am honored to be here, and to join Linda, Anne and Jessica, and all the fam…
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Robert Burt: Repetition and Insistence
author. Professor of Law, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires; Global Professor of Law, NYU Law in Buenos Aires, NYU School of Law. “What’s in a name?” Juliet wished there was nothing in it, but there was Romeo, a Montague. What’s in Bo’s name? It seems that here also the…
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Two Dreams
author. Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School. The week after Bo died, I dreamt about him twice. The first dream was very short. The second was longer and picked up where the first one left off. I can’t recall ever having had two continuous dreams of this kind before. But …
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A Tribute to My Friend, Professor Robert A. Burt
author. Senior Counsel, Torys LLP; Retired Justice, Supreme Court of Canada. “Please call me Bo.” With those words, spoken some twenty years ago, I was invited into what turned out to be the beginning of a beautiful friendship, with no apologies to Humphrey Bogart and Claude Ra…
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Insider, Outsider, Robert A. Burt
author. Yale Law School, J.D. 2014; Nephew of Robert A. Burt. My aim here today is to give you a sense of Professor Robert A. Burt—of what he was like as a friend and as a mentor. I’d like to do justice to his role in my life, and in the lives of many others. For Bo, as hi…
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Reading Reinhardt: The Work of Constructing Legal Virtue (Exempla Iustitiae)
120 Yale L.J. 539 (2010).
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A Progressive Visionary: Stephen Reinhardt and the First Amendment
120 Yale L.J. 515 (2010).